Questions tagged [critical-period]
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Does an internationally adopted child have an advantage when acquiring their original native language?
This question is mainly a reference request. I will use the term first native language for the language of the adoptee's birth region and second native language for the language of their adoption ...
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Are there any audio recordings of the speech of the feral child Genie?
Genie (Susan Wiley) is the pseudonym of a feral child whose linguistic development was considered extremely important in the study of the critical period for language acquisition as she had virtually ...
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Differentiating phonemes in foreign languages for adults
I've heard that past a certain critical period for language acquisition, our brain loses some neural connections and thereby the ability to differentiate phonemes not occurring in our maternal ...
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Critical Period for reading, writing, and listening?
I have heard about about the critical period hypothesis and how that applies to things like accents and stuff, but is there a critical period for reading, writing, and listening? After a certain age ...
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Analysing the notion of the native speaker
I am interested in the notions of the native, native-like, near native... speakers in linguistics. I have encountered several non-equivalent definitions/characterizations of these concepts. Right now, ...
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Evidence for age cutoff in foreign accent acquistion
Steven Pinker in "The Language Instinct" claims that there is strong psychological evidence for the existence of a sharp age cutoff for the ability to acquire a flawless foreign accent (I may dig up ...
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When is the end of the critical period?
At what age, approximately, is the end of the critical period for native language acquisition?
Of course, I understand that many details surrounding the critical period are up for debate. I want to ...
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